Scaffolded Nonfiction Reading Responses with Sentence Starters

Description

Help students respond thoughtfully to informational text. These 30+ pages of response sheets include strategies, graphic organizers, and sentence starters for summarizing nonfiction.

This product is designed to support readers in responding to informational text. It includes over 30 pages of strategies with a graphic organizer to record their evidence and thinking and sentence starters to respond to the text using their organizer. It also includes a couple pages of teacher tips.

These structured paragraphs are the perfect way to respond to reading with thinking and text evidence, and build up to the Short Constructed Response questions on the Texas ELA assessment, as well as other states.

Included in this resource:

• Questioning
• Types of Questioning
• Visualizing Vocabulary
• Personal Connections
• Text-to-Text Connections
• Text-to-World Connections
• Text-to-Media Connections
• Reasonable Predictions
• Evaluating Predictions
• Using Background Knowledge
• Visual Summary
• Summary
• Using Text Features (2 versions)
• Visualizing Main Idea
• Main Ideas (2 versions)
• Sequencing Events
• Visual Causes and Effects
• Cause and Effect Relationships
• Drawing Conclusions (2 versions)
• Reactions to Text
• Opinions About Text

Great for upper grade elementary classrooms, grades 3-6. Students who are encouraged to think about their reading will become real readers rather than word-callers!

Please download for use in your classroom and encourage your friends to download the document themselves. Thank you!

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